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Minimise injuries with an effective warm up

By Michael Anderson, Horder Healthcare Chartered Physiotherapist Simply, a warm-up should prepare the body for exercise. Skipping a warm-up before undertaking a bout of exercise doesn’t necessarily mean that you will become injured; however, the weight of evidence is in favour of a decreased risk of injury. Your performance may often be enhanced, though, and…

Exercises to strengthen your knee post surgery

Watch our latest video featuring an in-depth guide to exercising post replacement knee surgery.

Hydration in sport

Water is essential for the body. It plays many important roles in a wide variety of physiological processes including, maintaining blood and cell fluid volumes, as a solute for chemical reaction of cells and maintaining body temperature. During exercise, our body has to work harder to regulate its temperature. It achieves this through sweating. Exercise…

Osteoporosis and therapeutic standing pilates

By Debra Stork, Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates Instructor What is Osteoporosis? Bone loss slowly increases as part of the natural ageing process. This can lead to weaker bones and an increased risk of broken bones, also known as osteoporosis. Osteoporosis means “porous bone.” If you look at healthy bone under a microscope, you will see…

The effects of exercise on stress

by Hannah Munn, MSK Clinical Quality Manager for Horder Health Stress levels are increasing! Research published in 2017 revealed that stress affecting the working population accounted for 30 million days being lost in the preceding 3 years and for 43% of all days off in 2014/15. So how can we best manage our stress levels? One…

What are the best exercises for osteoarthritis of the knee?

What are the best exercises for osteoarthritis of the knee? January 10, 2018/Exercise & Fitness, Knee Osteoarthritis of the knee is generally a common complaint amongst those who are 50 years and older as a result of general wear and tear. As one of the largest and most complicated joints in the body, your knees…

A Pain In The Neck

Neck pain troubles most people at some point in their lives and can sometimes lead to other issues such as headaches, dizziness and feelings of nausea. Most people will discover that as they age their neck does not move quite as easily anymore. Typical things that we can hear in clinic are “I can hear…

Pelvic stability exercises for beginners

In this video, APPI instructor and Chartered Physiotherapist Debra Stork takes you through various exercises to improve pelvic stability using Modified Pilates.

Top tips for warming up before exercise

In this video Horder Healthcare Chartered Physiotherapist, Matthew Carr discusses his top tips for warming up before exercise. Presenting from the Eastbourne half marathon, Matthew takes you through various points of why warming up is essential before exercising. View our videos on YouTube.

Get Motivated

by Sports Rehabilitator and fitness instructor Daniel Dean 1. Set your goals There is a plethora of research to show the effectiveness of both short & long term goal setting. Whether it’s returning from injury or building up to your first marathon, goal setting is integral to maintaining adherence and motivation to exercise. It’s important we’re…